geosciences Article Coseismic Ground Displacement after the Mw6.2 Earthquake in NW Croatia Determined from Sentinel-1 and GNSS CORS Data Olga Bjelotomi´cOršuli´c 1,* , Danko Markovinovi´c 2 , Matej Varga 3 and Tomislav Baši´c 4 1 IGEA d.o.o., Frana Supila 7/b, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia 2 Department of Civil Engineering, University North, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia;
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[email protected] Abstract: At the very end of the year 2020, on 29 December, a hazardous earthquake of Mw = 6.2 hit the area of Petrinja and its surroundings, in the NW of Croatia. The earthquake was felt across the area of 400 km, leaving an inconceivable damage in the vicinity of the epicenter, devastated towns and ruined lives. In order to map the spreading of earthquake waves and to determine the coseismic ground displacement after the mainshock, we have analyzed open satellite radar images of Sentinel-1 and the GNSS data from the nearest CORS station related to the epicenter, along with the seismic faults. In this paper, we addressed and mapped the displacement linear surface ruptures detected by the SAR interferometry. The results show the vertical ground displacement to the extent of −12 cm in Citation: Bjelotomi´cOršuli´c,O.; the southern area and up to 22 cm in the north-western part of a wide area struck by the earthquake Markovinovi´c,D.; Varga, M.; Baši´c,T.